Welcome to my Bakes By Bohrer Website and my first blog post. For my first post, I decided to publish my infamous S’mores cookies recipe. This is my most requested recipe and all my friends and family LOVE these cookies. They are a crowd pleaser and a great addition to any potluck or event.
My family loves to go camping and these cookies were inspired by the classic camping treat, S’mores. This recipe combines gooey marshmallows with crunchy graham crackers and melted chocolate. These cookies are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth and are perfect to make year round. Especially during the long days of winter, to help us look forward to fun summer days ahead.
Ingredients:
– Butter
– Brown sugar
– Eggs
– Vanilla extract
– Graham crackers
– Baking soda
– Salt
– Flour
– Chocolate bars, I use the classic milk chocolate Hershey’s bars
– Dehydrated marshmallow bits. I found these at my local grocery store. They can also be bought on Amazon.com
– Mini marshmallows
Let’s Bake:
These cookies are so quick and easy to put together. First and foremost, preheat your oven to 350F. I use my kitchen-aid stand mixer to combine all the ingredients. Combine the softened butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs next. Make sure they are room temperature. To bring eggs to room temperature quickly, just place the eggs in a bowl of warm water. Next, add in the vanilla extract. Once the dough is smooth, add in the crushed graham crackers, baking soda, and salt. To crush the graham crackers, I just put a sleeve of graham crackers in a Ziploc bag and crush with my hands. Once combined, turn the mixer to low and slowly add in the flour.
Chop up the 6 of your chocolate bars and mix these chocolate pieces and the dehydrated marshmallows into the cookie dough. Use a large cookie scoop and scoop dough onto parchment paper lined baking sheet. Put the cookies in the oven and bake for 6 min. After 6 minutes, take the baking sheet out of the oven and place 3-4 mini marshmallows on top of each cookie. Return the baking sheet to the oven for another 5 minutes or until the mini marshmallows on top become a nice golden brown color. While the cookies are baking, chop up the remaining chocolate bars. Make sure you don’t chop up the chocolate into too small of pieces, because this chocolate is going to be put on top of the cookies. Once the marshmallows on top are a nice golden color, take the cookies out of the oven and place some chopped chocolate pieces on top of each cookie. Let the cookies cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet, and then transfer cookies to a cooling rack.
Cookie Bars:
You can also make this recipe into cookie bars. This is my favorite way to make them when I am bringing them for a large group. Prepare the dough the same way that you would for the cookies. However, instead of scooping the dough into individual cookies, just press all the dough into a parchment lined jelly roll pan. Bake the cookie bars for 8 min initially. Then take the pan out of the oven, sprinkle mini marshmallows on top, and return the pan to the oven for 6 more minutes or until the marshmallows are golden brown in color. Sprinkle chocolate pieces on top of the bars and let bars cool completely before cutting. The cookie bar version takes much less time than making individual cookies and allows you to cut the bars into as many pieces as you need. I hope you enjoy!!!
S'mores Cookies
S’mores Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
1.5 cups light brown sugar
2 large eggs, room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
1.5 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp kosher salt
2 ¼ cup all purpose flour
10 (1.55 oz) milk chocolate bars
1.5 cups dehydrated marshmallow bits
1 cup mini marshmallows
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350℉. Prepare your baking sheet with a sheet of parchment paper.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, mix together butter and sugar on medium speed for 2 min until light and fluffy. Turn the speed to slow and add in the eggs and vanilla. Mix until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Add in the graham cracker crumbs, baking soda, and salt at a low/med speed. Mix until incorporated.
- Turn the mixer to low and add in the flour until combined.
- Chop up 6 of the milk chocolate bars. Add chopped chocolate bars and mini dehydrated marshmallow bits to the dough. Stir until combined.
- Using a large cookie scoop, scoop the dough onto the baking sheet. Try to keep the cookie dough 2” apart.
- Bake for 6 min. Remove cookie sheet from the oven, and add 3-4 mini marshmallows to the top of each cookie. Return the cookie sheet to the oven to continue baking. Bake for 5 min, until the marshmallows are golden brown on top.
- Chop the remaining chocolate bars into small pieces.
- When the cookies are done, remove the cookie sheet from the oven. Immediately press 2-3 chocolate pieces onto the top of each cookie.
- Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes, and then transfer to a wire rack to continue cooling.
Notes:
- You can easily make these cookies into bars. In my opinion, it is much easier and less work. Follow the directions through step 5. Instead of scooping into individual cookie dough balls, you can press cookie dough into a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Bake for 8 min, then remove the sheet pan from the oven and sprinkle mini marshmallows on top. Return the sheet pan to the oven for 6 min. Remove the sheet pan and immediately press chocolate pieces into the bars. Leave the bars in the pan to cool, and wait until they have cooled before cutting the bars.
- The dehydrated minis marshmallow bits can be found at your local grocery store or on amazon.
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